Version Superseded: 27/01/2003
Point in time view as at 05/12/2002. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Housing Act 1996, Section 163 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 06 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)A person shall be put on a local housing authority’s housing register if he applies to be put on and it appears to the authority that he is a qualifying person.
(2)A local housing authority may put a person on their housing register without any application, if it appears to them that he is a qualifying person.
(3)When a local housing authority put a person on their housing register (on his application or otherwise), they shall notify him that they have done so.
(4)A local housing authority may amend an entry on their housing register in such circumstances as they think fit.
If they do so, they shall notify the person concerned of the amendment.
(5)A local housing authority may remove a person from their housing register in such circumstances as they think fit.
(6)They shall do so—
(a)if it appears to them that he has never been a qualifying person or is no longer such a person, or
(b)if he requests them to do so and he is not owed any duty under section 193 or 195(2) (main housing duties owed to persons who are homeless or threatened with homelessness).
(7)Before removing a person from the register, a local housing authority shall comply with such requirements, as to notification or otherwise, as the Secretary of State may prescribe by regulations.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 163(5) restricted (20.1.1997) by S.I. 1996/2753, reg. 8
S. 163(5) amended (E.) (3.4.2000) by S.I. 2000/702, art. 8(1)
Commencement Information
I1S. 163 wholly in force 1.4.1997: s. 163 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 232(1)-(3); s. 163(7) in force for certain purposes at 1.10.1996 by S.I. 1996/2402, art. 4; s. 163 in force at 1.4.1997 to the extent it is not already in force by S.I. 1996/2959, art. 3
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